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ORCHESTRA OHIME. No, 317,391. Patented May 5, 1885.

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UNITED STATES Parana Price.

JOHN R. LOMAS, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO B. SHONINGER, OF SAME PLACE.

ORCHESTRA-CHBME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,391, dated lday 5, 1835. Application filed August 18, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ward or shorter arm, f, stands beneath the Be itknown that I, JOHN It. LOtL-ls, of New opening in the key-platform. In the under Haven, in the county of New Haven and State side of the key is a stud, 9, made fast to the of Connecticut, have invented new Improvekeys by a screw-shank, and whereby the studs 5 ments in Orchestra-Chimes; and I do hereby may be adjusted up or down, as occasion may declare the following, when taken in connecrequire. The studs bear directly upon the tion with accompanying drawings and the letshorter arm of the bell-lever, and so th-tt when ters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, the key is depressed the stud, acting upon the clear, and exact description of the same, and shorter arm f, will throw up the hammer k 10 which said drawings constitute part of this against the bell, as indicated in broken lines,

specification, and represent, in Fig.8. Thekeythereforeaetsdirectlyuponthe Figure 1, a perspective view of the instrubell-hammer without intermediate or connect ment complete; Fig. 2, a top View showing the ing mechanism, as in the usual construction of cover over the bells removed; Fig. 3, a vertical chime attachments for musical instruments.

I 5 transverse section. The damper h is attached to the end of an arm,

This invention relates to the construction of i, the other end of the arm made fast to the an instrument to be used as an accompaniment key, one such damper being provided for each to other instruments in an orchestra, the ob bell, the damper applied at the front of the ject' being to arrange a chime of bells in so bell, and so that when the keyisin its normal 20 simple and compact a shape that the chime position the damper will rest upon the bell;

may be conveniently introduced wherever rebut when the key is depressed, as indicated quired as an accompaniment in the orchestra; in broken lines, Fig. 8, then the damper is and the invention consistsin an instrument as raised from the bell, as also indicated in a complete article having a chime of bells arbroken lines, Fig. 3, leaving the bell free for 25 ranged therein combined witha corresponding vibration under the blowof the hammer so series of keys, hammers, and dampers, all conlong as the key shall remain depressed. The strueted and arranged as more fully hereindamper, like the hammer, is operated directly after described. from the key and without interposition of the The case A, within which the chime and intermediate levers or mechanism, as in the 30 mechanism is arranged, in its best and most usual arrangement of chimes. This construeconvenient form resembles somewhat the up tion of instrument adapts it to convenient use per part of a reed-organ, as seen in Fig. 1. In as an accompaniment in the orchestra, is prothe front portion of the case the platform B is duced at a small expense, and may be used to arranged, for the support of the keys, in the advantage by beginners in piano practice, it usual manner of arranging such a board in being equally as well adapted for such pracreed-0rgans-that is, inclined from the rear tioe as a piano, and less offensive to those who forward and downward, and made fast in its are compelled to be in the vicinity. position. 0, the keys, are hung at the rear, as It will be understood that I do not claim, at a, and in the usual manner for hanging keys broadly, a chime of bells combined with ham- 40 of like musical instruments. At the rear, and mers, dampers, and keys, whereby under the preferably elevated above the keys, isaseries manipulation of the keys the bells may be 0 of bells, D, corresponding to the respective struck, as such an arrangement of bells I am keys on the key-board. These it will be un.- aware is not new, and may be found in Let derstood are graduated according to their reters Patent of the UnitedStates granted to me 45 spective keys in the usual manner of graduat- March 2, 187 5, No. 160,4l8; but

ing chimes. hat I do claim is Beneath the platform 13, and upon a ful- 1. The combination, in an instrument, of a crum, b, the hammer-levers d are hung; the series of bells, D, corresponding series of keys, rear end provided with ahammer, e. The for- G, the hammer-levers (I, hung upon a fulcrum beneath the keys, the longer arm extending beneath the bells and having the hammer rigidly fixed at its end, the shorter arm extending beneath a stud on the keys, substantially as described, and whereby the keys act directly upon the hammer-levers.

' 2. The combination, in an instrument, of a series of bells, D, corresponding series of keys, 0, hammer-levers d, hung upon a fulcrum beneath the keys carrying the hammer e at the to longer end, the shorter arm extending beneath the stud on the keys, and the dampers h, attached directly to the respective keys, substantially as described.

JOHN R. LOMAS. Witnesses:

J OHN E. EARLE, LILLIAN D. KELSEY. 

